Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

I had forgotten how much she struggled while in office.

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• This is a crazy story (and a very detailed one) regarding a woman who was arrested for a felony because of a Facebook post.  Trinidad is down by Corsicana with a population of 880.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• Gift link.  Everyone involved in this traffic accident made some very poor choices.
  
  
  
• Pretty big story out of Weatherford about the planned construction of a massive data center (with a little irony in the headline.)
  
   
  
  
  
• Updates regarding the Insurrectionist Slush Fund:
• This guy is such a clown.  Video 
  
  
  
• And we will never know who all gets paid or how much. 
  

  

  "Pay the man his money."

  
  
• "Stand back and stand by" turned out to be a promise. 
  
  
  
• New York Times editorial: “Americans should be clear-eyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.” 
  
  
  
• What Congress?
  
  
  
• One of our oligarchs said this about Trump yesterday.
  
  
  
• I've never understood why Republicans drag out that Scott Pressler guy for the crowd.
  
  
  
  
• The more you study this photo, the crazier it gets.
  
  
  
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Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The Presumptive Republican nominee got a head start on who he might pick if elected.  Neil Gorsuch, who he would end up nominating, was not on the list. 

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• More revelations about the Insurrection Slush Fund:  Trump and his family may have cheated on his past taxes, but the IRS can no longer do anything about it. The corruption is unprecedented. 
  
  
  
• I wonder if Cornyn is rethinking his plan to name Highway 287 after Trump? 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Update on the Cybertruck in Lake Grapevine. 
  
  
  
• Some reports make this sound like the Kansas City receiver has had his probation revoked and he's going to jail because of it.  Nope.  As part of his original sentence he was going to have to sit for 30 days in the Dallas County jail at some point during his probation.  After testing positive for THC, the judge ordered him to start serving the 30 days right now.   
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Big fire in McKinney yesterday afternoon from a lightening strike. Video.
  
• If you don't get hit by a Cybertruck in a local lake, you might get blown up by a pipe bomb. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This world is getting too weird. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Random thought: Trump loves the security features of his new ballroom so much and is so anxious to get the thing built, that it's almost like he's expecting to use it as a bunker in the future. (And we now know that if you are outside committing acts of violence on his behalf, you will not only the pardoned, but you'll be rewarded with big bags of money from a slush fund.)
  
  
  
• Elections:
• Trump got a win last night. Massie voted to release the Epstein files.  
  
  
  
• Alabama did not help with its reputation. 
  
  
  
• This is really good and detailed.
  
  
  
• Nerdy legal stuff: There was a capital murder conviction reversed yesterday because the defendant's family was excluded from the voir dire process because of lack of courtroom space. Hernandez v. State, No. 14-25-00292-CR (Tex.App. - Houston[14th Dist.] 2026) 
• Falling through a manhole in midtown Manhattan seems unusual: 
  

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

It seems that this was one of the first  of a string of murder cases that began to filter through the Wise County judicial system.

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• I lead today with the greatest corruption in the history of the American presidency. A five person committee, selected by Trump's former defense lawyer, will have complete discretion on how to spend an obscene amount of your tax money.  And nothing prevents them from giving the majority of it to Trump himself.  It's over.  
  

  

  

  Congrats. You are writing checks to these people. 

  
  
• At least Blanche has to answer questions today. 
  
  
  
• Look what happens when the 17 and 18 year old shooters are exposed to Islamophobia by our "leaders."
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Local: Here's a nugget I saw in a Star-Telegram story
  
  
  
• Cyber Truck down! Cyber Truck down!
  
  
  
• He became the most famous cop in America.
  
  
  
  
• This is going in the wrong direction. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump surprised no one by backing off a threatened attack of Iran  yesterday (the sixth time he has done so), but he actually said in a tweet that one was "scheduled" for today.  
  
  
  
• One word in the headline explains everything about his reasoning: 
  
  
  
• Our government just established a religion right before our eyes over the last 18 months.  (Yep, it's real.) 
  
• John Cornyn pulled out Rick Perry and former senator Phil Gramm (!) to campaign for him yesterday.
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: I was trying to figure out how a brawl in a state courtroom could lead to federal charges, but I guess once he grabbed the gun he became subject to a federal firearm law based upon interstate commerce. 
  
  
  
• I read ten stories about this verdict, and I still have no idea what question the jury was asked. And throughout the weeklong trial, I don't remember the issue of limitations ever so much as being mentioned.   EDIT: A faithful reader sent me a PDF of the actual filled out jury verdict. 
  
  
  
  
• Tech's gambling quarterback has sued the NCAA and has hired the Speaker of the Texas House as his lawyer. Judge Phillip Hays, a Lubbock native and twice a graduate of Texas Tech, was assigned the case.
  
  
  
• Here's the text of the full settlement agreement establishing the $1.8 billion slush fund. It's amazing. (Look at Paragraph IV(E) which indicates that the public won't even know who or how much someone gets paid from the fund.)